Maxim Sansour

Familiar Phantoms is an experimental documentary short film about memory, history and trauma.

As Abu Laila is forced to leave his job as a judge and become a cab driver, he faces a hectic challenge when he's told by his wife to bring a gift and a cake for their daughter's seventh birthday, which proves to be a task more complicated than he expected.

A clinically dystopian, yet humorous approach to the deadlock in the Middle East.